“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’ By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks? I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks. ‘They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.’ It really got decimated and other people do a lot of shark attacks. So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that.”
It’s even dumber than his uncle teaching at MIT, although that’s the classic one for me. That one he was more “coherent”, but it’s not “Do you know who my dad is?” because dad’s rich or connected. It’s “my relative is smart so I am too.” Pehaps the absolute stupidest appeal to authority fallacy ever tried.
The “having nuclear” one is my ‘classic’ Trump text, maybe it’s the same one you mean? He also mentions his uncle there. Wait, let me find it.
“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
But another one that sticks with me is what he said when he was asked about the nuclear triad during Republican debate. He so obviously has no idea what the fuck he’s talking about, and people still voted for him. That moment alone should have sunk his campaign.
Question: “What’s your priority among our nuclear triad?”
Trump’s answer:
“Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible; who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important. And one of the things that I’m frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you’re going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important.
But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. Frankly, I would have said get out of Syria; get out – if we didn’t have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can’t just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn’t care. It was hand-to-hand combat.
The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he’s saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear – nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That’s in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now."
HE HAD NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
So they asked him again, giving him the benefit of the doubt?:
"Of the three legs of the triad, though, do you have a priority?
And Trump responded with:
“I think – I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.”
How, please tell me how this did not sink his candidacy? How is it possible people still voted for him? It’s absolutely terrifying to me, honestly.
yep. and they love him. they ignore all reality, because they’re racists/sexists/fascists and don’t mind burning everything else down so they can shit on everything from the economy to the functioning of government.
over 2 years ago…
“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’ By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks? I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks. ‘They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.’ It really got decimated and other people do a lot of shark attacks. So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that.”
I have read a lot of Trump crap over the years but I must have missed this one. It’s… terrifying. Entirely deranged.
It’s even dumber than his uncle teaching at MIT, although that’s the classic one for me. That one he was more “coherent”, but it’s not “Do you know who my dad is?” because dad’s rich or connected. It’s “my relative is smart so I am too.” Pehaps the absolute stupidest appeal to authority fallacy ever tried.
The “having nuclear” one is my ‘classic’ Trump text, maybe it’s the same one you mean? He also mentions his uncle there. Wait, let me find it.
It’s so hard to believe he actually spoke these words out loud.
But another one that sticks with me is what he said when he was asked about the nuclear triad during Republican debate. He so obviously has no idea what the fuck he’s talking about, and people still voted for him. That moment alone should have sunk his campaign.
Question: “What’s your priority among our nuclear triad?”
Trump’s answer:
HE HAD NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. So they asked him again, giving him the benefit of the doubt?:
"Of the three legs of the triad, though, do you have a priority?
And Trump responded with:
How, please tell me how this did not sink his candidacy? How is it possible people still voted for him? It’s absolutely terrifying to me, honestly.
yep. and they love him. they ignore all reality, because they’re racists/sexists/fascists and don’t mind burning everything else down so they can shit on everything from the economy to the functioning of government.
thanks conservatives, you fucking pogues